Synodic month length 29.71 days

Length of current 359 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 7 minutes. It is 41 minutes shorter than next lunation 360 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 9 February 2029 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠99.9°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠99.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠136.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after perigee

7 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2029 at 12:21 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 February 2029 at 11:59 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 382 490 km

Moon before ascending node

12 days after its descending node on 28 January 2029 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 February 2029 at 03:07 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

1 day after previous South standstill on 8 February 2029 at 06:14 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.127°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.019° in the next northern standstill on 22 February 2029 at 22:00 in ♊ Gemini.